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Nicholas Brown is an Australian-Indian actor, singer, songwriter, and screenwriter. Raised in Greystanes, he attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, and is an acting graduate from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art.
ySex Magick2023Strawberry Hills:Currency Press,2023251441382023single work drama
'After a workplace indiscretion shatters his elite physiotherapy career, Ard Panicker ends up working at a metaphysical health spa giving Ayurvedic rubdowns to yummy mummies in Bondi.
'When he receives word that his estranged father has died, Ard’s world is thrown into turmoil. He begins to shake and shudder with mysterious full-body seizures—accompanied with waking visions of a terrifying, all-powerful deity.
'Desperate to find a cure for his phantasmagorical condition, Ard travels to the village in South India where his father was born.
'Instead, he finds an enlightened tantric guru who cracks open his sense of identity, sexuality and his grip on reality.'
form yThe Unlisted( dir. Justine Flynnet. al. )agentAustralia:Aquarius Films,2019152850082019series - publisher film/TV children's science fiction
'Twelve-year-old identical twins Dru and Kal are just like any other Australian boys living in Sydney in their first year of high school. Their parents are second generation Indian Australians and have embraced everything the country has to offer. But after a government-sponsored dental check-up, in which Kal is seen twice so that his twin, who has a crippling fear of dentists, can avoid another fainting episode, the Australian dream starts to unravel. The boys discover that a mysterious electronic device has been inserted into Kal twice, while Dru remains device-free and, therefore, undetectable. For what sinister ends is a democratic government secretly tracking and manipulating Australia’s youth?'